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High-resolution analyses of recent sediments from a Norwegian mountain lake and comparison with instrumental records of climate

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The purpose of the palaeolimnological research project carried out at Øvre Neådalsvatn was to apply a number of physical and biological proxy-climate analyses to recent sediments and to compare the results of these analyses with instrumental records of climate. Using a radiometric chronology to match the sediment core with the calendar ages of the reconstructed instrumental record, and by time-averaging the instrumental record, the statistical significance of the relationships between each of the sediment-climate proxies and the reconstructed instrumental-climate measurements were evaluated.

Acid deposition at Øvre Neådalsvatn has been low and its impact limited. Whilst there has been an overall rise in mean annual temperature of about 1 °C since 1900, the physical and biological sediment records studied appear to be insensitive to climate warming of this magnitude. On the one hand, this may be a result of the loss in temporal resolution caused by time-averaging the instrumental data; on the other hand, the lake may be insensitive to the impact of this climate change.

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  1. Environmental Change Research Centre, Department of Geography, University College London, 26 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AP, UK

    N.G. Cameron & N.L. Rose

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Bergen, Allégaten 41, N-5007, Bergen, Norway

    Ø.A. Schnell

  3. Department of Ecology and Systematics, Division of Hydrobiology, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 17 (Arkadiankatu 7), FIN-00014, Helsinki, Finland

    M.L. Rautio

  4. CNR – Istituto Italiano di Idrobiologia, Largo Tonolli, 50-52, I-28048, Verbania, Pallanza, Italy

    A. Lami

  5. Environmental Tracers Group, Water Resources Department, Swiss Federal Instiute of Environmental Science and Technology (EAWAG), Überlandstrasse 133, CH-8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland

    D.M. Livingstone

  6. Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Liverpool, P.O. Box 147, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    P.G. Appleby

  7. Environmental Magnetism Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3BX, UK

    J.A. Dearing

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Cameron, N., Schnell, Ø., Rautio, M. et al. High-resolution analyses of recent sediments from a Norwegian mountain lake and comparison with instrumental records of climate. Journal of Paleolimnology 28, 79–93 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020324019052

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